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1942 Key System B & C lines timetables
It took considerable negotiating skill, helped along by judicial intervention and the transfer of authority for bridge matters from quasi-independent trustees to the city government with the amal- gamation of Greater New York in 1898, before any Brooklyn ele- vated railway could operate its trains across the bridge to Park Row. Although no through service with Manhattan elevated lines would ever come to pass, first Brooklyn Union and then Kings County did build track connections at the Brooklyn end of the bridge between their own lines and the bridge cable railway so through service could be operated. The first through train from Park Row—a ceremonial inaugural that took railway and civic of- ficials all the way to Manhattan Beach—operated on May 18, 1898. Brooklyn Union acquired a fleet of twelve electric elevated cars to move its trains into and out of the bridge terminals. The cars were built by Pullman Palace, rode on McGuire trucks, and were powered by four eighty-horsepower Walker motors. The motors were specially designed for heavy-duty applications by S. H. Short of the Walker Company, one of the many pioneers in railway elec- trification. The new cars, which Brooklyn Union identified as its 400-series equipment, featured center doors to speed loading and
St George terminal, from https://www.silive.com/timecapsule/2021/06/then-and-now-railroad-tracks-that-carried-life-around-staten-island.html
Map of interurbans around Buffalo with line thickness representing frequency, from https://53studio.com/collections/maps/products/buffalo-interurban-electric-railways-map-1910
Wayfinding sign in a ferry terminal, with icons for "Baggage Reclaim", "Cafe / Restaurant", "Taxis / Meeting Point", "Buses / Coach Transfers", and... "Horse Trams"
Map of Pittsburgh East Busway P1 and P3 routes; the P1 is almost entirely on the busway but at its western end makes a small loop through downtown on surface streets. The P3 makes a larger surface loop through Shadyside and Oakland.
Japanese consumer confidence graph from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSCICP02JPM460S
Graph of global per capita fossil fuel consumption, from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuel-cons-per-capita
Inflation-adjusted oil price graph from https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart
Log plot of GDP per capita in England, 1270-2016, from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-in-the-uk-since-1270?yScale=log
2024 map of the Cardiff Valley Lines from projectmapping.co.uk
Schematic map of trolleybus routes in Transnistria
Map from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Lombardy%E2%80%93Venetia
Map from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Electric_Railways_Company_of_London
Tiraspol-Bender trolleybus
Graph of US unemployment rate
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1UIxa
DB Navigator app timetable search showing an 11h6m, six-transfer itinerary from Amsterdam Centraal to Berlin Hbf
View south over the IJ
Screenshot from bahn.de showing a Regional Express train scheduled to run nonstop between Bohusovice nad Ohri (Czechia) and Santarem (Portugal) in 11-13 hours, marked as operating April 1 only.
population density map of Germany
https://xkcd.com/1138/ regarding geographic profile maps which are basically just population density maps (or at least close enough to population density maps that other trends are difficult to discern)
Photo of the Shonan Monorail 🚟 with the caption "rail service is currently suspended"
Tatooine
Passengers at Paris Gare de l'Est queued up for a ticket check to board a Frankfurt-bound ICE